Naked Cake with chocolate and orange ganache

Days before, I baked this Naked Cake for my friend Claudia, she turned 21. I think the result is perfect because the filling is soft and yummy and, of course, chocolate makes it much better.

Naked Cake means that the cake won't be covered by any kind of icing, we just see the filling and the cake decorations. Despite this, these Naked Cakes are getting successful, above all in weddings. I have to be honest and say that the simplicity is, at the end, even more delicious than the rest of the cakes full of different ingredients and icings.

So, now, here we go with the ingredients and the preparation of the cake and the ganache, which will be published aside this recipe. 

Serves: 12

Difficulty: not that difficult

Time: 40 min baking the cake + 30 min ganache + 40 min ganache chilling in the fridge 

Ingredients: 

• 4 eggs
• 200 gr icing sugar
• 150 gr butter 
• 150 gr flour 
• 50 gr cornflour
• 2 tbp baking powder
• a pinch of brown colouring

Preheat the oven at 180 º C. Now, in a bowl we have to mix the eggs with the icing sugar until getting  a soft and a little bit white cream. After this step, it is time to incorporate the butter to the previous mix. The butter should have a very light texture in order to be able to work with it properly. Now, mix well with the rest of the ingredients to have an uniform and shining mixture. In another bowl, it is time to incorporate the dry ingredients: the cornflour, the baking powder and the flour. Mix them very well and pour them into the bowl of the wet ingredients. Now, incorporate the colouring.
It is time to bake the cake. I have used a 20 cm diameter mould because the ingredients perfectly fit in it. Pour the dough into the mould and bake it for 40 minutes. After baking it, let the cake rest until cooling. Meanwhile, we can prepare the ganache (the recipe will be published aside) Once the cake is cool enough, remove it from the mould and cut it into two parts. Fill in with the ganache.

Ingredients of the ganache:

• Chocolate ganache
• 2 oranges
• sugar

Peel the oranges, cut them in sections. In a pan, caramelized them. Remove it from the heating until cooling. Then, fill the cake with the ganache and the oranges sections. In order to incorporate the ganache, you can use a pastry bag to make the cake higher. Now, put the oranges sections and we cover it with the other side of the cake. I put more ganache and orange sections on the top as decoration. Moreover, you can also sprinkle sugar on the top of the cake. 

And that's all, hope you have enjoyed and liked it!